Taiwan Research Programme

The Taiwan Research Programme contextualises processes of modernisation and globalisation through cross-disciplinary studies of significant issues that use Taiwan as a point of comparison. Through research, teaching, and hosting seminars, workshops, conferences, and publications, it seeks to stimulate new interactions between disciplines and areas in order to develop new scope for dialogue and understanding in the globalised world.

The Co-Directors of the LSE Taiwan Research Programme took part in a Chinese Religions Workshop at the Fairbank Center, Harvard University, entitled 'Margins as Centers and Centers as Margins|'. Professor Stephan Feuchtwang presented a paper on 'Border Regions and Empty Spaces: centers as margins and margins as centers in China', and Dr Fang-Long Shih presented on 'The Changing Locations of Sam-Giap Maiden Temple in Taiwan.

A report|of the event has been published in the Fairbank Center's newsletter for Spring 2013, page 4.

Dr Fang-Long Shih responds to media reports about betting on the life expectancy of terminally-ill people in Taiwan

Wednesday 3 October 2012

The Programme's Co-Director, Dr Fang-Long Shih, was invited to be a visiting scholar at Chung Cheng University during October, funded by the Taiwan National Science Council. From 20 to 22 October she attended a conference on the goddess Mazu, and present a paper entitled 'A Return to Mazu: civil society and religion in Taiwan'.

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